Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have asked you for more , ’ said Nubenehem . |
| 2 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 3 | But I 'll have done something for four years . |
| 4 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |
| 5 | Fry felt that he might have left it for good after his latest week of unemployment . |
| 6 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 7 | I might have to hurt you for that . |
| 8 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 9 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 10 | You could have prepared me for this — ’ |
| 11 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 12 | We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind . |
| 13 | You know they could have shot me for that . |
| 14 | Or we could have left you for dead . |
| 15 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 16 | gee , grief , that 's six times as much , you 'd have to have something for brown stains would n't you , you could n't just use them er hand like , but , but is brown mind you but erm |
| 17 | I 'd have got them for five or six quid a window |
| 18 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 19 | He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’ |
| 20 | Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material . |
| 21 | She would have admired him for that , once . |
| 22 | Dave breathed a sigh of relief but realised that he would have to prepare himself for another day . |
| 23 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 24 | Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising . |